"Kneel down!" Liu Zongmin took Gao Wencai and Zhao Peng to Li Zicheng and ordered them to kneel down.

"No need, Jiexuan retreated aside. I have something to ask the two of you!" Li Zicheng stopped Liu Zongmin. After saying that, he turned to look at Gao Wencai and Zhao Peng, and asked with a smile, "Please ask yourself, how do I treat you?"

"Your Majesty treats the late emperor and the prince well, and he has the kindness of not killing us and the two of you. I should be grateful to Your Majesty for your great kindness! Your Majesty is about to go to Shanhaiguan. I should do my best to help Your Majesty attack Jiannu together!" Zhao Peng replied.

Li Zicheng laughed: "Boy, you pretend to be very similar! If you tell me, you will say that the two of them pretended to surrender and waited for the prince to ascend the throne to the south. I heard that you are, is there any such thing?"

Someone told me! Who told me the secret? If the labor and capital know, I must peel it off and suck its tendons. Zhao Peng secretly cursed the rumor in his heart. On the surface, he pretended to be calm and calm: "Go back to Your Majesty, there is indeed this. I originally wanted to save the prince from going south to ascend the throne. After all, this is something a loyal minister should do! But Your Majesty is very cautious and I have never been able to do it. But now that the enemy is in front of you, Jiannu is about to invade our China. I will try my best to resist the enemy for Your Majesty to protect our China from falling into the hands of Jiannu! I hate Jiannu and the greedy officials in the court the most in my life! Therefore, Your Majesty eliminates the nobles in the court, and I also like to hear and see them! However, when it comes to the matter of the prince, I still hope to escort the prince south to ascend the throne as emperor. If the prince can ascend the throne, it will be of benefit to Your Majesty and you will not harm you!"

Li Zicheng nodded: "I see that you cast cannons for my Dashun. If you can tell me what the prince's southward travels to Dashun is good for me, I will spare you two! Otherwise, if the army will go to war tomorrow, you and the two of you will be killed to sacrifice the flag!"

Zhao Peng said calmly and calmly: "Your Majesty, when the situation is clear today, although the north of the Huai River has been obtained by Your Majesty, the south of the Huai River is still controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and there are Jiannu outside the pass to be eyed; there are Zhang Xianzhong's separatist rulers in the southwest. However, now some people in the Southern Dynasty have proposed a plan to unite the enemy to suppress the enemy. If you can escort the crown prince to the south to ascend the throne, you can order the Southern Dynasty to resist the enemy! Your Majesty will not think that you can stop the South.

Are you attacking Jiannu from the north and south? Once Jiannu attacks Shanhaiguan, those gentry and civil servants will surrender to Jiannu as they surrendered to you! If you let me escort the prince south, I will purge the shameless gentry along the way, so that your Majesty will eliminate the troubles of your Majesty, so that your Majesty will have no worries and fight Jiannu with peace of mind! I hope Your Majesty will think twice! If the army goes to war tomorrow to kill the traitor and the sacrificial flag, Your Majesty will kill Chen Yan!"

Li Zicheng laughed: "It's reasonable. If I don't kill you, I will definitely kill Chen Yan's sacrifice flag! You sent someone to break through the Li family and kill all the male members of the Li family. I also believe that you hate civil servants and gentry, which is definitely not under me! But if you want to let Your Highness go, you will be exempted from talking! Since you can support Your Highness to ascend the throne in Nanjing and ask the Southern Dynasties to change the strategy of the alliance to suppress the enemy, can't I use the crown prince to order the prince to order the prince? I will issue an edict to the Southern Dynasties to resist the enemy with the order of the crown prince to supervise the country?"

"Your Majesty thinks that a crown prince can be appointed as a governor, and that the prince can be used to order the prince? Even if your Majesty abdicates, it will be useless to establish a new monarch! The six ministries and various yamen in Nanjing are complete. These people can only choose a master to become the new monarch. What's the use of keeping Your Majesty with Your Majesty? It would be better to let me take Your Majesty south to ascend the throne, which will do nothing to your Majesty." Zhao Peng asked back.

Li Zicheng shook his head and said, "But the prince always thought that I had killed his father, and he hated me to the core. Do you think that when the prince came to the south, he would listen to your Lianshun resisting the enemy? Even if he did not agree to Lianshun, it would be great to keep the two of them helping each other! Okay, you might as well go back first. Tomorrow, you will go to Shanhaiguan, and the prince will be escorted by Liu Jiexuan (Liu Zongmin). You two will help our army deal with Jiannu! My Dashun Iron Armored Camp was created by you, so you should lead the troops to help me. Please go back first, my dear friends."

"Thank you for not killing your Majesty!" Zhao Peng had no choice but to thank Gao Wencai for giving thanks to Li Zicheng and then left.

Seeing Gao Wencai and Zhao Peng's backs disappear outside the hall gate, Wang Xiangyao stepped forward and showed a flattering smile: "Why didn't Your Majesty kill these two people to prevent future troubles?"

Li Zicheng snorted: "These two are loyal and righteous people. If they kill them, wouldn't it make the heroes in the world feel cold! In addition, Zhao Peng is a rare firearm talent. Only when he builds firearms for me can he resist the elites of the Jiannu Eight Banners! Therefore, this person cannot be killed!"

"But these two people are pretending to surrender. With this, Your Majesty cannot keep them!" Wang Xiangyao continued unwillingly. It was because he opened the Xuanwu Gate that the imperial city was lost. He was afraid that if the Shun Army loses its power in the future, Gao Wencai and the others will definitely kill him.

Li Zicheng sneered and said, "Fake surrender? Didn't Guan Yunchang believing surrender back then? But did Cao Mengde kill Guan Yunchang? Isn't I even better than Cao Mengde? Although Guan Yunchang was falsely surrendering, he also helped Cao Mengde kill Yan Liang and Wenchou. Later, he released Cao Mengde in Huarong Dao. Zhao Peng also falsely surrendered, but built excellent firearms for me, and he also sincerely helped me fight against Jiannu! If I encounter unexpected problems in the future, I believe he will save me with all my strength! So, stay at the front line of life and give myself multiple ways of retreat!"

After Zhao Peng left the palace, he immediately pulled Gao Wencai to Zhou Kui's mansion.

"Little brother, why do you go to Zhou Guohou's Mansion so late?" Gao Wencai asked.

Zhao Peng said angrily: "Go to Zhou Mansion to grab someone and take back His Highness the Princess! Zhou Kuina's old dog, he betrayed us, otherwise how could the King of Chuang know that we were trying to surrender and save the prince from the south? Apart from you and me, only the princess knows about this matter! It must be that the princess accidentally let the mouths go, Zhou Kuina's old dog knows it and sues Li Zicheng!"

The two of them came to the door of Zhou Kui's mansion, and Zhao Peng slapped the door hard: "Open the door! Open the door!"

"Who? I'm so late and I'm still here to shoot the door! Will I let you sleep?" An old voice came from inside. At this time, it was equivalent to around 8 o'clock in the evening in later generations. In ancient times, there were no electric lights, movies, TVs, and computers. Except for those who visited brothels, most people had already gone to bed at this time.

Zhao Peng shouted: "Princess Kunxing, the princess, and Zhao Peng, the Jinyiwei Qianjia, is it! Open the door quickly!"

"Your Highness the Princess has already fallen asleep. I hope the prince-consort will come again tomorrow." The slave inside replied.

"Open the door quickly, if you don't open the door, you will smash the door!" Zhao Peng roared.

The door slowly opened with a "creak" sound. As soon as the vermilion painted door opened, Zhao Peng rushed in with one step, knocking down the old slave and not helping him, and ran straight towards the inner courtyard.

Princess Kunxing, who was awakened, put on her clothes and ran out. Seeing Zhao Peng rushing in, she stepped forward to stop him: "General Zhao Xiao, why is he still coming to visit the Zhou Mansion so late?"

Zhao Peng grabbed Princess Kunxing without saying anything: "Your Highness, you should not worry about Zhou Kui, the old thief who does not recognize his relatives! You should follow me quickly!"

"Why is this?" asked the princess.

Zhao Peng said angrily: "He just sent someone to sue the King of Chuang and betrayed our prince and His Highness! We had all planned well and wanted to take advantage of the King of Chuang to send troops to Shanhaiguan to rescue His Highness. Now, the King of Chuang knows about this and has already ordered Liu Zongmin to take strict supervision of His Highness! It's all good things your grandfather did! Just like this, you still send him off to his grandfather?"

"Is this really happening?" The princess widened her eyes incredibly, "Then how can you come back alive?"

"If I hadn't been able to cast cannons, gunpowder, and weapons, it would have been of great use to the King of Rebellion. Maybe my head would have fallen off at this time! He had previously turned away His Royal Highness and your two younger brothers, causing them to fall into the hands of the thief! Later, you were injured, Fei Gang carried you to the Zhou Mansion, and he was also rejected by him! If these still can't explain the problem, then when Liu Zongmin put the knife on the neck of your grandmother and your uncle and asked him to hand over the silver, he would rather watch your grandmother and your uncle die tragically than hand over the silver! This led to your grandmother and your uncle's death tragically!" Zhao Peng said angrily.

"Is there really such a thing?" Princess Kunxing was stunned, "It's better for Rong Nu's family to go and ask her grandfather in person."
Chapter completed!